"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Divide the target in proportion to the available resources

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they wouldn't sit!