Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

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.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

Do not allow anyone to dim your light.

The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill it up with possibility. Oh please: one more transformation.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

I listen mostly to classical music.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.