“Opinions are a useless currency”

“Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world.”

“Words often outlive the people who create them.”

“People experience books so very differently.”

“The things that truly define me cant be lost.”

“Scars can mark you for greatness.”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”