I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Solitude is a gift you give yourself every day.

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

Do your own thing; always follow your dreams and don't feel limited by what someone prescribes to you as to what you should do. Expand your horizons, try new things, be adventurous.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.