I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

So when I feel most lost I choose to remember those things that help me survive. I choose love.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.

Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.