What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

God wants to use you right where you are with what you have not what you do not have.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

Fall in love with peace to enjoy the journey we call life.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Friendship is a special kind of love. More than endless, more than true. When friends parted ways no matter the distance, expect them to keep coming back to you.

I think you can have 10, 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.