It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.

You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.

Life is too short to enjoy all the beauties of life.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

It's smart to marry your yoga teacher so when you get divorced you know how to go down on yourself.

What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Donald Trump is a genuine outsider.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.