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

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

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

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Suicide is not a choice, it is what is left when everything else fails.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.

I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!