The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

With love, we can save every soul from self-destruction.

A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered…

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.