Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Don’t stop searching for opportunities until opportunities find you.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.

In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.