“To love is to stop comparing.”

“Ce n'est pas à la possession des biens qu'est attaché le bonheur, mais à la faculté d'en jouir. Le bonheur n'est qu'une aptitude.”

“We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.”

“Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got up at 5 AM every morning to write before work.Every time my alarm goes off at 5 AM and I don’t want to get up, or I would rather sit down after work and play a videogame, I think about those guys. Take care of your family. They need you and love you. Make time for them. Then stop screwing around and finish your damn book.”

“The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.”

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”