I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

May the light of the morning sun shine upon you. May the deepest and sweetest love always find you.

Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

Well, I never got to meet Jack Nicholson.

I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.