[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

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.

Leadership is influencing others through modeling.

There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth paying attention to the facts (causes) upon which the effects [results] are based.

Books inspire us to dream, and then if we let them they will help us to achieve that dream!

Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.

I was the Reaper and he was the Ghost, and his soul was long overdue for collection

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

We need diversity in our population to make it work.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.