This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

So often we focus on finding answers to life's mysteries...when in reality, a wiser approach is to start asking better questions, and more of them.

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds.

If you believe, work hard, and smile there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

Don't worry about what you can't control.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.