We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.