For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.

Love For All, Hatred For None.

What space brings to you is that global perspective, that planetary perspective, that we're all in this together, and no matter where you're living on Earth, we're all part of this amazing journey.

I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

I remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.