I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

There was nothing she would ever change about him, except for who he thought she was.

To understand even remotely the holy omnipotence of God is to understand at least from mostly to wholly the magnificence of Christ.

The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams.

Worship is not love.

I am a massive film geek, and I love movies.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Democrats, Republicans, independents, people across America. If you don't vote for me, I still want to be your president.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.