I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfillment of your purpose.

IF WE BELIEVE IN VICTORY WITH NO STRUGGLE, THEN OUR FAITH IS COMPROMISED..!!

I know mine own!"--Walter Emmett Velvet, the Antichrist

India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

I think a lot of people are married to people that they're not romantic with anymore. I just didn't ever marry anybody that I then had to get divorced from. We break up. We move on.

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

I tried to have a cookie, and this girl said, "I'm mailing those cookies to my friend." So I couldn't have one. You shouldn't make cookies untouchable.