Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.

It’s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

A changeable God would be no God.

The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.