Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.