Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.

I believe we should be championing the work of women. I believe we should be championing the work of people who have been marginalized. That's who I am. How can I not believe in that?

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

Turnarounds seldom turn.

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.