All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned. (Anthony & Cleopatra - Shakespeare.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

The thing I fear comes upon me

I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard