Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Dont turn your face all the stars are out longing you.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

A true magician must not undertake anything regarding which he is not thoroughly informed.

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.