Words without experience are meaningless.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

A good reputation is better than great riches.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.