"Life is essentially a cheat and a disappointment to a man who has attained forty years, who has for twenty years sweet-talked himself into the believe that life was a good thing."

"I want to be a successful writer. I want to be a famous writer. I want to be a rich writer. I want to be a great writer."

"I'm not a fan of life. I'm a fan of living."

"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about."

"France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of an idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves of Massachusetts and the cherry blossoms of Washington, and…"