“Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.”

“Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.”

“Pride is a powerful force. The pride that kept so many men in California. They want to go home. But I can't go until I've got something to prove my success. They've been reading about success back home. I know, says the miner, how many people are failing. Failure is the most common fact of life in California. They don't know that. How can I go home a failure, when they expect me to come home a success? So they stay.”

“people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.”

“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”

“He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy”

“It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.”

“It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.”

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”