“The world and everyone in it is always ready to blame a man for anything when he is already knocked down.”

“Moonlight signifies a time when there is hope in darkness, but you have to focus on that hope.”

“Ive learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that youre with me, even when youre not by my side.”

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“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....”