“Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.”

“Its natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more ...”

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

“If you care about something you have to protect it If youre lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“My life is a reading list.”

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

“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 ...”