We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

Nothing good can come from a crack of dawn meeting on a Monday morning.

You have the power within your reach to create what you desire.

A mind is not weighed by its magnitude, but by the dimensions of its thoughts.

The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Just the way I carry my swag and I'm humble with it too.

If government were a plant, it would be kudzu.

The reason they were designated as targets was to keep them from the witness stand and us. Is it just a coincidence that four years later they haven't been indicted