I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.