The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

I don’t let success define me, I let it refine me.

"In literature, we find the truth of our own existence."

We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one.