It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

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.

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

There is nothing like race, is there?

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

I was never a hammy child. But I could make people laugh.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.

Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.