It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Most importantly, love each other deeply, because love cause many sins to be forgiven. - 1 Peter 4:8

In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Most people don't realize this, but you can eat organic, all natural, gluten-free food without telling everyone around you.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.

I care about this state... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track.

I think all women have some sort of beauty in them.