“It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing.”

“Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”

“It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.”

“Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.”

“You must first be nothing to become something.”

“If there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty, that can only be beautiful as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and this I should say of everything. …by beauty all things become beautiful. …by greatness only great things become great and greater and greater, and by smallness the less becomes less.”

“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”

“Everything is eternal
Nothingness does not exist
No thing has ever become nothing
And nothing has never become something
What is has always been and will always be”

“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person…. Reading is bliss.”

“The world has become too dangerous for anything less than utopias.”