I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Events are transient, feelings are momentary, perception is optional and internalization is life long.

Do not let let difficulties overcome your true purpose

Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.

Busyness chokes deep thinking.

Greed, corruption, violence, sin, deception all come from a lack of understanding that we’re all connected.

To me death is better than the defensive.

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.