In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.