“There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”

“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.”

“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally importan...”

“We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”

“Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves and other animals.”

“Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.”

“You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.”

“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.”

“She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.”

“Im a dot in the grand scheme of things. I dont matter, not even to the other dots.”

“Music is a writer's heartbeat.”

“Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.”

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”