I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The more the problems in a society, the greater the chances of success.

This doesn't feel right Agres...” Tria whispered “Nonsense!” Agres replied.

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state.

If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.