Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.