It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.