Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

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