When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

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

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.