Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

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.

How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?

Don't let misery bring you down.

Ask a new question and you will learn new things.

Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

Can you explain what Internet is?

I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.