There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

I don't know yet what we're called, or if we have a name. I know so little and need to learn so much. I'm many things, detective, and all of them love you.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

I think Jo Kwon is my nemesis, because he looks like me.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

It is very unlikely that [Lasith Malinga] would be able to play in the World Cup

I believe in deeds, not words.