I want to be remembered as someone who never gave up.
The world is more malleable than you think. We can bend it into better shape.
People can be divided into these types: strangers, acquaintances, familiar people, friends, and close friends. True friendship isn't about compliments to your face, but whether you're mentioned when they talk about friends behind your back.
"The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them."
Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.