"This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens."

“Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it.' But I think what people need is the sense of not being alone. They go to MFA programs to be part of a community of people who care, and then you start caring about your friend who is trying to edit a magazine and your other friend who is stuck in the middle of her poem. There you have all kinds of things to worry about besides your own success.”

“A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

“The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say”

“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”

Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada

“Chin up, shoulders back. Let ‘em know you’re here. #ProudOfWhoYouAre”

“i feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.”

“Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.”

“We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.”