Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

It's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder what happened, and then I begin to rebuild it in my head

We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.

Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.

You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.

Without stories, we are incomplete.

All girls are beautiful, and when they say they're ugly they only lie to themselves, for it's impossible for them to be ugly.

LATENT TALENTAnagram of complacencyKamil Ali

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don't want to run off and be distracted by other things.

You don't need millions of dollars or millions of people if you're doing what you love.

If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

What I really don't like is oversimplification.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.