“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; ...” — Friedrich Nietzsche Quote

“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.”

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?”

“The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.”

“One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.”

“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”