Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Be positive. Believe that you will succeed. See it, go for it. No matter what the odds, most of the battle is inside your own head. -- Bob Mayer

Screw the shops

He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren't. But I must live my life.

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.