It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

The light within you is divine.

Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong

A moment can be left inside the memory of time.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling, when that happens.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.