Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

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.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Ladies who were no better than they should be, whose dresses were too tight, too bright and too all the things Magnus liked most, lounged on velvet-covered benches along the walls.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently.

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier.

The younger one looked to be completely useless.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.