Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

Our world is so bursting-full of natural wonder that we are all experiencing a sensory overload. We are no longer perceiving all of Ú the details, just the ones that immediately interest us.

Of course at that point I had no idea that the adventure was only beginning and that the struggle and the rejections were to pile before me, a typical young writer, in an implacable mountain. But I was on my way.