The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.