A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.

The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.

What you have to do to achieve what you want necessitates the creative actualization of the totality of your being as it is. Nothing more, but also nothing less.

Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.

A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.

Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.

Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.