I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

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.

if you speak things into existence, they will become real.. believe me!

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones.'

I don't want to disappear.

Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.