'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, " said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

She placed her hands, one on each of his shoulders, stood on her toes and kissed him on the lips. He waited, enjoying the moment like none before.

Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it...

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

I do think you fall in love when you feel that something of your story is being listened to for the first time, or you feel someone else is hearing it as no one else has ever done.

I hope that Angela Merkel can become the chancellor of the rebuilding of Europe, in close cooperation with the role that I will play in the process.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.

Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.