Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.