All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

That said the conspirators:Tell us your secret and we will have betrayed you for a lifetime.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Food is just the greatest joy on the planet.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

It's kind of the Washington, D.C., chattering class. They kind of talk amongst themselves.

Be peace, don't just talk about it.

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.