"The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose."

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

"I think I am a man without a country, except that I have a country, and it's full of people who are as crazy as I am."

"We are all prisoners of our own minds."

"To understand the man, you have to understand what he wanted. And what he wanted was always the same: to be a writer."