As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.