Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.