When there is not a single special person in your life, you have so many special things for saying, and when you have so many special people, you cannot even find one special word for them.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

I think everything contributes to your creativity.

For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.