To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks

A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.