It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

There might come a day when you will have to fly alone. Don't be afraid. Your wings will take you to ridiculously beautiful places that you never knew existed.

Happiness is a choice and a state of mind.

It takes a village to raise a child.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

Our differences should not be exaggerated.

It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.

I won't do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can't, it's not gonna make the team.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.