Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.