The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.

Who that prohibits two people who have different views about God to love each other?

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.