Each couple is its own vaudeville act.

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

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.

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.

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.