The hardest decisions often yield the greatest rewards.

I believe in the beauty of dreams and the power of faith.

All writing is an attempt to escape the self.

The way in which men produce their means of subsistence depends first of all on the nature of the actual means they find in existence and have to reproduce.

"Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky."