Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

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.

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

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.

He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

You take a normal guy, give him a wife, give them time, and you've got AN IDIOT!

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost.