Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

Make men work together, show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.

We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet.

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.