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

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.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

The person you see is the person you will be.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

I'm getting paid to wake up America every morning!

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

Only by love is life made real.

As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.