The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Those in your inner circle can significantly influence your success and the progress you make towards achieving your dreams.

The nature of God is in every man

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.

Corporations and businesses [don't] create jobs.

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man!

It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.