The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

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.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.

Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity.

Before you think good or evil, who are you?

I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.