It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.