"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both, you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."

"I learned to write by reading."

"I do not believe in God, but I miss him."

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

"The world must have been in its infancy then, and everything had a name of its own and there was no need to point."