You can only predict things after they have happened.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?~Jack or The Submission

I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty, " sad when I think that we shall be separated from one another and from ourselves.

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

Don't confuse legibility with communication.

I fight fairly, and in good faith.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.