Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...

It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done.

Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.

Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.

Actually there were only two forms of existence, I reflected: one that was tied to a place and one that wasn't. Both had always existed. Neither could be chosen.

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.

Attributing to another author, "Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

It is every Muslim's duty to fight those of a different belief until only Allah is worshipped around the world. Everybody has the opportunity to accept Allah and to change to the right path.

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of political forces play a roll.