When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

The best way to reach your Goal is to say "NO" more than you say "YES

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

The lies are in different places.

I think that there is something in the human psyche, that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to get doom laden.

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.

I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon.

I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.