The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.

A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.

Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

Communication is truth

Harry Potter is dead.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.