Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

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.

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

If you feel you must become a 'dragon man', " she chuckled as she spoke. "Then I will be by your side every step of the way.

As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment...

Loyalty is what you focus on and won't give up.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

There is so little that one can do for the dead!