I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

It's nice to find creative outlets on a daily basis.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

I love to do yoga, even if it means getting up at 5:30 in the morning. It helps me breathe and stop all the chatter in my head. That can help you get through everything.

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.