Goals do not achieve, neither do they fail. Goals are simply destinations. Arrival depends on the effort you put into the journey.

Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that...

Life is about living the songs others only sing

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

The function of the novelist . . . is to comment upon life as he sees it.