“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. ”

“He suddenly wonders if he's missed the really important things in Life in his search of really important things.”

“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!”

“Achieving repute and notoriety is at first like the seemingly hopeless effort of pushing a large snowball up a hill, but eventually you will push it over the apex and watch it grow rapidly as it rolls effortlessly away.”

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have togive up all the other important things.”

“but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to things. i create significance, and i create meanings, and as hard as that may for you to believe, that's really even more important in the long run than life and death.”