Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

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.

I'm not a cynic. I am a realist.

You make me burn with life, and yearn to set aside my cold and distant, solitary ways.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

We will try to honor David Letterman achievement by doing the best show we can.And occasionally making the network very mad at us.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.