Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.