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.

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.

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.

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.

Desire to seek, desire to learn.

I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me.

Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils

Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman

I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu.

Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.

The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.