“The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.”
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
“It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...”
“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”