I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

When your time is gone it is gone forever. Take action before your time is gone. Live now.

Being with you makes people desire what you represent

Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.

A lot of people would enter restricted sites just to say they can, and then log out. Today, everything related to hacking seems to be for monetary gain.

Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.