Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
You have to be willing to fail in order to succeed.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."