You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

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.

Sometimes things don't work out and the reason has nothing to do with you, or how good you are.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

Let us be merciful as well as just.

Don’t just look for your miracle. Become someone else's miracle.

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.

You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

If we want to see an end to personal and global conflict, then love is the only real answer.