I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

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.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

After you do one thing, you've got one thing done.