I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

My mother did what many men do. She left.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.