I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America, " he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

Fetty Wap is just a face. It's just a name and face.

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

The watchful mother tarries nigh Though sleep have closed her infant's eye, For should he wake, and find her gone.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have.