In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.