I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Righteousness is the truth revealed and working in you.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

We're all being tested...That's what life is.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.

In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out.

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

Our goal is to make God look good in the universe.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.