Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.