Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
All of us are better when we're loved.
And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.
Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.
No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
Writers write about what worries them.
Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
If you’re healthy all around, you’ll feel better, and if you feel better, you’ll have a more positive outlook. It’s all connected.
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.