You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.