Greatness is not achieved alone; it is built through teamwork.

"The task of the novelist is to awaken the reader's sympathy, to make the reader care."

I don’t like to be quiet. I like to be loud.

The course of human life is not determined by drives or environment alone, but by creative self-direction as well.

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.