A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.

There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

I was a hangover of that era where they’d say “Take off that medal! Is that a St. Christopher medal? You’re going to lose your audience with that.”

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends.

Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.