The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

A nice warm shower, a cup of tea, and a caring ear may be all you need to warm your heart.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

It takes two to make an accident.

We want to have movies be seen. So, first and foremost, what's the world? So we can get it onto a big screen.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.