As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

One of the principles of increase that provide enough demand for growth is vision

My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"

The one-legged never stumble.

If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

If you wanna go somewhere, you can do; nothing is stopping you.

I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!

we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.