A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

It doesn’t matter what you think, what you believe or what you feel the only thing that ultimately matters is what you do.

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

There is so much more to understand.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

All I could think to say was, "The Lakers are my home team!

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.