Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

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'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.

I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.