He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

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

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.