“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

You never understand anybody that loves you.

You’ll lose it, if you talk about it.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Reading is an essential tool to keep the mind sharp and the imagination running wild & free.

Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.