Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

If we first purify our souls, we desire to dwell in clean surroundings.

Be like a mountain

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.

When you're at an Olympic Games watching someone you've known for a long while and he or she has done something, even if it's only coming in the top 50, then you have a monumental night.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.