In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

We are always in a constant state of conspiracies, at least thats what they keep telling us...

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

I'm running out of places I can run, looking for a place in the sun.