"I still believe in God, but I'm not a religious man."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think too much about what he is seeing. It will come out in his writing if he truly sees it."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."