“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”

“I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?”

“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.”

“Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this day”

“For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.”

“Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.”

“It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.”