It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.

I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

There's no way that you can stop nature.

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life

In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.

Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want.

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.

The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.