Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

My poetic aspirationIs to become, A Jack of all stylesAnd a master of pun.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

Your intentions create your experiences.

I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

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