He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Not one had ever passed judgement on my cheap handbag to my face. But then, this is a reserved country.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.