Fiction creating reality.

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.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Creating is like the oxygen in my air.

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.