I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die.

I must always march on in my life. What's done is done.

Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.