I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

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.

Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

The Inspiration You Seek Is Already Within You. Be Silent And Listen.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

To kill or not to kill, that was the question that haunted me.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.