“There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.”

“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
"I want to be a soldier. A hero."
"You'll grow out of it.”

“I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.”

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.”

“There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises….
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays”

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.”

“Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.”

“Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life”

“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”