"I started to realize that everyone goes through those doubts, and I need to try and be the best version of me I can - not only for myself but everyone around me."

“In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.”

“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”

“Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.”

Source : John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.124, Health Communications, Inc.

“And you… do you know what you are?” “Stupid?” “Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red.”

“Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.”

“Recently I have done some circles that are almost that large and I've come all the way around after walking for an hour and I have hit the other side exactly. I mean exactly the right spot which is very strange. Believe me it's very, very strange.”

“You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.”

“I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.”

Source : Michael Bloomberg, Matthew Winkler (1997). “Bloomberg by Bloomberg”, Wiley