The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.