The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

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.

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

The mind is given to you, you are not given to the mind.

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.