He traveled in order to come home.

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

There are only three things which increase when shared: love, wisdom and happiness.

There is no perfect condition so now is the perfect time and today is the perfect day to take action.

I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

I definitely believe that love conquers all, yes.

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.