Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

Credit is money of the mind.

The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.

Better to face the bear than run from it.