What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.

I was happy without having sought happiness.

Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is?

fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.

The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history.

Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of every ideology became as worn as that book's cover.

Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.

No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.

It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

I want to look at you as you kill me.

Seize the day and explore the allure of life.

Every dream has a price for its prize. I hope you are willing to pay for yours?

You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

The media is the great middleman. Trump doesn't need a middleman to get his message out. Trump's crowds are five blocks long.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.