I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.