“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Your past does not equal your future.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

Effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

You have to do everything out of love, nothing out of force.