I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.
There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.
For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.