“Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then youre ...”

“You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?”

“Who dreams so much, forgets to live”

“Celui qui se relve de ses faux pas aura gagn l'estime des dieux. De toutes les couleurs qu'on lui en a fait voir, il construira un arc-en-ciel.”

“Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.”

“We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.”

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”

“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”

“The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but act...”

“Fuel your life with passion.”

“We are pathfinders on a mission, Beholders following the Light, Runners gunning for the prize and Fighters remaining focused...You have been described, do not accept any other description!”

“So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.”