Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it

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.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.

That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

I am enjoying myself and I do not mind the loss of personal time and family time when I am doing good films.

Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

Teaching, without learning, is just talking

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.