It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair. " "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.
If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
I'm always looking for talented people that I want to collaborate with.
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.