The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. No, let's say Shakespeare and Dickens, to get them in the right order.