There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.