It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.

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.

Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I've got an extra room, how about you stay for a while.

I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes.

I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Nobody has asked me if I support [Paul] Ryan.

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.