Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

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.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Nothing of importance happened today.

I refuse to use the computers if Google is on them.'Librarian: 'Okay.''--'Librarian: '--''--'Librarian: 'Enjoy your day!

Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

Nothing comes from without. All things come from within.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.