“What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?”

“If you're alive, you're creative.”

“Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.”

“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.”

“Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.”

“What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”

“We pick and choose who to love. We pick and choose who to hate. We pick and choose our friends and ignore those that invade our space.We pick and choose who should live. We pick and choose who shou...”

“Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to cho...”

“I don't have the perfect roadmap drawn out, but I do know which roads I'll never drive down again.”

“In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power.”