“But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.”

“"The words still don't move."
"The words don't need to move. It is you who is moved by them."”

“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”

“You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.”

“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”

“Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.”

“I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!”

“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”