It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Whoever trains the children controls the future. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a society will only ever be as strong as the families in it.

The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end.

It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?

Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.

Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity.

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor