Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

I dream of continuing to dream.

The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

The future is created through memory.

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.

Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle.

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

I don’t embrace excuses. I embrace solutions.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?