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

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.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

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

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

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

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