To write is to inform against others.

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

There's no sustenance in the past.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

To be immortal and then die

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

Confidence sometimes requires purposeful preparation and practice.

I happen to believe that one of the great crises facing the planet is climate change. Donald Trump happens not to think that climate change is real. Hillary Clinton takes it seriously.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.