"Travel light and trust in serendipity."

“Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.”

“Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.”

“The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.”

“To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.”

“I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. And it's appropriate, because the writer is getting paid and the reader isn't.”

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“I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.”

Source : Eddie Rickenbacker (1967). “Rickenbacker”, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall

“The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.”

“I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.”