Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
“You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”
“The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.”