“ Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.”

“People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.”

“The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.”

“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.”

“The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.”

“Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Menulis kembali kenangan masa lalu butuh sebuah keberanian.”

“There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.”

“ignorance and power, theyre a poor combination.”

“I will find you.In the farthest corner, I will find you.”

“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”

“It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'.Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.”