Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

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 sure that you didn't think I would notice, but we memorize the strangest things in a personwhen we're in love with them.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved.

Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.

South Korea's investment in Russia has not been smooth, ... Korea had planned to carry out 126 investment projects worth 273 million, but in reality, only 91 projects worth 137 million are under way.