“Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?”

“But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
“You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.”

“You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.”

“Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation.”

“After you have settled yourself in a place as favorable as possible to the concentration of your mind upon itself, have writing materials brought to you. Put yourself in as passive, or receptive, a state of mind as you can. Forget about your genius, your talents, and the talents of everyone else. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that lead to everything. Write quickly, without any preconceived subject, fast enough so that you will not remember what you're writing and be tempted to reread what you have written. The first sentence will come spontaneously, so compelling is the truth that with every passing second there is a sentence unknown to our consciousness which is only crying out to be heard.”

“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

“the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.”

“How can you do anything until you have seen everything, or as much as you can?”

“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”

“Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”