If memories had a smell, it would be the fragrance of camphor, sweet and secure, like clearly remembered happiness, sweet and melancholy, like forgotten sorrow.

The poor often lack the information needed to make good choices, and when they do have it, they often don’t trust it.

What literature needs most to tell and investigate today are humanity's basic fears: the fear of being left outside, and the fear of counting for nothing, and the feelings of worthlessness that come with such fears.

I don’t like to be comfortable. I like to be challenged.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.

I don't play for the records, I play because I love the game.

"A novel is a world you can hold in your hands."