I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

There is no nobility with bad manners.

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.

Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?

I don't like that [scaring] feeling and I watch the news every day because of it. It's going to be hard to fix all of these problems that seem absolutely unfixable to me.