She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful.

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.

People will oppose your progress. They will remind you of your past failures, belittle you, etc. The only way to stand against such opposition and belittling is to knowthe reason for your existence.

The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

I hate when people make a really good product and then stop making it. I get annoyed.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination