I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

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.

To think is good. To obsess is bad.

If we read the Word of God, we shall know the will of God.

*Nothing is free* asserts two things. Both assertions are true.

Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be a corrupt institution.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.

The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.

Orson Welles, who said to Anita Bryant, Stop picketing me. What I said was I was a thespian. Never got a dinner!

When you're inspired you attract abundance.