"The taste of the apple... lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself."

"The future is inevitable. We cannot change it. We can only change how we react to it."

"All literature is an autobiography."

"There are some people who are born to be unhappy, and I am one of them."

"I have always felt that one doesn't have to be a genius to be a good writer. One only has to be honest."