“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”

“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”

“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”