"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." — Jim Rohn

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.