I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

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.

The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.

Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice.

If I didn't have enormous dreams, I wouldn't have come this far!

We'll become whoever we trust the most says we are.

To avoid all possibility for error is to avoid all possibility for growth.

Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.

Violence is an expression of impotence.

I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.

When I wasn't sure what the word "charisma" meant, I met Steve Jobs, and then I knew.

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.