It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

Full mind is the mind of stupid man

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.