Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

To conform is to lose your soul

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

We make our own music. We paint our own future.

Casting sarcasm ain't easy.. It needs hard work and a big mug of cappuccino!

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.