Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

True love stories never have endings.