Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be saying no, Molly. How about no? Saying no is great.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.

Love is spelt T.I.M.E.

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?