Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

Always be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life, Than living someone else’s life.

We normally know we're getting older when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

To be strong is to be happy!

I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great.

...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.