People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

A little time can help you to make a great impact, therefore you should never despise few minutes. Do it till it's done and done well!

I want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

It is ok if you talk to a rock, but it is not ok if you expect any reply!

With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.

I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.

I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.