What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

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.

What kind of god would create a world in which the means of survival depends on our eating each other?

Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla, " said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.

in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and .

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

Health is not just a physical phenomenon. We do not just have physical bodies.

We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.