[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

Books do furnish a room.

Humans are thought to be at the top of the food chain...But there are beings who hunt them as food.These monsters who feed on the dead flesh of humans.They are called......Ghouls.

Anger is an indication of pain and pain is an indication of sadness that grows inward and creates a lot of discomfort.

Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!

ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping.

If anything matters, then everything matters.