“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“Remember that every man is a variation of yourself”

“But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part o...”

“Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.”

“I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.”

“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”

“Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.”

“The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.”

“great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this aft...”

“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on ...”