The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

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.

It may not be important how much you have, but it is important who you are in your heart.

Time utilization and effectiveness is a major marker for success

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.

The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

It's abundantly clear the Democrats want to eliminate us.

I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.