There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

A person who lives by the rules of the world cannot resist the devil, cannot fight him

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.

So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

I don't play the tuba.

Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.

I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.