“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

You must accept the reality of other people.

You must accept the reality of other people.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection

But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…

If the deployment of ground troops helps in the fight against Daesh, why is that World War III?

We cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.

Every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.