There are many monsters, oh, many!

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

I am happy to see you, Maso

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love.

Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

Happiness is a sort of action.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

Let some people get rich first.

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

I did denounce it. I de-I denounced it. I denounced interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy... bigotry.

I was not a politician.

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!