There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I let people off the hook too easily.

Happiness is hanging with friends who know you way more than you'd care to share.

The self was both its origins and its journey.

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.