Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

The real problem of the world is that the number of the current idiots is much greater than the intellectuals of the past decade all together.

Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.

The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.