We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.
I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.
And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.