Philosophers have debated the meaning of life for centuries, rarely coming to the same conclusion.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers – not just capable of doing it, but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels.
A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees. A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God.
When someone says they’re going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.
True love would never die.
The greatest storms begin as gentle breezes.
S*** don’t mean s***.
People assume any twentieth-century white male writer must be an alcoholic.
Money from nowhere almost always spells trouble.
Literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness.
