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

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

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.

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.

Silent words are heard through eyes.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!

If I fall now, I will die. But I don't think I will fall.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.