When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

Don't let the time convince you to quit, instead, convince the time to extend with patience.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.