A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)