Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die."Kate to Will

I make movies I want to see.

I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!

In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody.

I'd rather be honest and lose than be dishonest and win

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.