When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

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.

People ask without wanting to know.

She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Well, my plan, actually Larry Kudlow, who's a fantastic guy, I think likes my plan the most. I'm cutting taxes by about the most.

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.