I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

To be human is to be in a story.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by

What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the peoples of our lands, but merely peoples...

Every setback is an opportunity to grow.

I don't feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Don't wanna marry nobody, if they're already married.

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51.

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!