It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.

Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.