Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

Profound thinkers either become astute lovers or rebellious spirit

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

I don't listen to what people say, people been talking about me since I was born.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.