We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

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.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Time, as such doesn't travel! It's the paradox & uncertainty inside you that makes it travel.

Sometimes you should be fake... to be honest is the thing which used against you... too much of you could kill ya.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

There's no way out of here.

There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

There’s 3 types of fans. There’s the ones that scream, the ones that want to talk to you and the ones that don’t speak at all.