An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion, but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.

There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?" - Vaughn to Faith