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.

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.

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.

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

The only need of God is in people

You are a god wrapped in flesh

Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Everything we put in and on our bodies must be nutritious and safe.

You never get bored with God in action.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.