Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

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.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

You're given the fruit of one palm tree:Bear it a basin of clear water.Don't trouble with the plight of other palms.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

So end-to-end encryption, keeps things encrypted and that means that law enforcement, without a warrant, cannot read that information.

If Christ is not everything, He is nothing. He who has Christ has everything.