Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.