... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

True happiness is not found. It finds you.

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.

I have only one heart to give and one mind to lose. May I someday find a woman who will take them both.

There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.