I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

Culture Clash is a national treasure.

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the answer given without hesitation.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

She never liked me much, but she sure loved me

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak,” he laughed.