Never complain and never explain.
After a storm comes a calm.
Only the educated are free.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.