Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep.

Life is like Alice's White Rabbit. He runs away and does not grab anything, but this is not important: what matters is to keep on pursuing him.

Spyglass is not interested In Stargate.

It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.

I'm very confident in what I do, but I'd like to think I don't ever show any kind of cockiness or overconfidence.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

The universe is a thought of God.

Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?