I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

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.

Get with it, or get left behind.

We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you so can the things it brought.

A full mind is an empty bat.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

A guru is not a crutch, he is a bridge.

...you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again