What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

I believe in free will. I have no choice.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.