I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come to them, as different people and things collect mysteriously around us.

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.