The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.

I understand how important hair is to a woman's self-esteem and confidence.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.

The road to nowhere leads to me.

By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.