How many prison years in the years since Christ!

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

art is risk made visible

One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?