The greatest works of art are born from the deepest sorrows.

Every truth goes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.