1. “Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.”
2. “Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. it’s everything at once.”
3. “The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.”
4. “I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.”
5. “Wounds are an essential part of life and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.”
6. “Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.”
7. “If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.”
8. “Every generation always thinks it was better before and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.”
9. “One should never underestimate the power of books.”
10. “What matters is not how ell you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.”
11. “We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.”
12. “There’s hope for everyone. That’s what make the world go round.”
13. “The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance and so they have a lasting effect.”
14. “Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
15. “We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.”
16. “Just think it and chances are it will happen.”
17. “The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.”
18. “I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.”
19. “Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in is played out.”
20. “Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.”
21. “You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.”
22. “Every man is the author of his own life.”
23. “To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.”
24. “Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.”
25. “The story is not in the words; it’s in the struggle.”
