"Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop."

“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.”

“We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers that is not freedom of the press.”

Source : "Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote". content.time.com. January 26, 1959.

“Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

“Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.”

Source : Maxim Gorky (2016). “The Lower Depths”, p.55, Courier Dover Publications

“First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.”

“The question you need to ask yourself is not if you will heal, but how you will heal.”

“I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.”

“Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.”