It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

That's God's will - Lunatic

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

The most oblivious people are often the happiest.

My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.