“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.”

“Knowing what doesn't make you happy is equally important as knowing what does!”

“What's so great about writing?" "You can make anything true”

“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”

“Money will only make you more of what you already are.”

“You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.”

“What drives men of genius is their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is not good enough.”