I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Prayer is not complaining but proclaiming

You gave me a forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

The belly comes before the soul.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Policy is the people you work with.