Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

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.

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.