Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could….

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea..

He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had….

Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him ….

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?.

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality..

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground….

The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine..

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time..

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go..

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man..

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions..

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516.

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore..