What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

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.

Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.

Everything is possible, but where can I find everything?!

your are my life.. and my life is yours..

Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.