“It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.”

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”

“That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.”

“Sometimes what you fear the most to do is the very thing that will set you free.”

“Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.Our stories can set us free...When we set them free.”

“During his reading hours, which were between one and five o'clock in the morning, but not every morning, he had come to the disconcerting conclusion that whistling was not an important theme in literature.”