Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

If you examine the Bible daily, you find the beauty of being.

Realize that your life situation will never line up perfectly for you to start a business.

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.

I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.