A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.