The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

I think writers are very anxious.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

I am only one man with one heart...Call me a demon, call me a monster...but I can't be the strongest forever...!!! — Whitebeard's response to his status as the "Strongest Man in the World".

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.