We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.