Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

There is no art without Eros.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

I have no words for my reality.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

I built a phenomenal company; if we could run America the way I ran my company, we'd be proud of it.

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

Word - that invisible dagger.

I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.

An evangelist no more imposes his views on others than a pilot imposes his views on his passengers when he lands a plane on a runway. I bet the passengers are glad!

The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

Now I've heard the phrase 'there's no such thing as an ugly baby' but that is an ugly baby!