We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. – Jean de La Fontaine

True nobility is exempt from fear. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – whats going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. – Jonathan Safran Foer