“Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.”

Assumptions are dangerous things.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.

There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.

I learned that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn’t it?

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

The world’s most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice.

Don’t expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: “Run your own race, put on your blinders.”

The best advice I’ve ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you’ll go far in life.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.