That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

We fear what we don’t know, or whatever seems like a mystery to us.

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.