How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

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.

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

I’m going with Darrelle Revis.

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.

Remarks aren't literature.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

We all could be great, but we have to be open our mind to the way in which we could.

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.

The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money.

I have a lot of Jordans, a lot of Nikes, a lot of Blazers.