The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Your ability to adapt to change and embrace uncertainty positions you for success in a dynamic and ever-evolving world.

The person who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.