I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

The book belongs to the author.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Give and take is business not bhakti

Do it for the kids! The ones who look up to you — especially when they are pleading for their lives." — Bats 2015

Through the threat of IS, we recognize how important the cooperation with intelligence services (inaudible) first and foremost also with the services of the United States is.

There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you, like, 17 right off the top of my head.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

I'm not in love with you.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

I don't really have a plan. I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother.

Greece is a good place for rebirths.