I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

Sinto que há uma estranha eternidade naquilo que amámos e foi destruído.(I feel that there lies a strange eternity in that which we loved but has been destroyed.)

It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It's necessary.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.