Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

What is the image you have of yourself?

My kids remind me every day how much I don't know.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner.

There is nothing wrong with my mind.