I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population.

I am scared of running out of money.

Half the people on the internet are bored and they have no life.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

Winners win not because they're allowed to, but because they decide to.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.