Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
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.
Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.
This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.
I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.
I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before. . . all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.