You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

To me, food is a representation of your soul.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

I’m confiscating your hair dryer—you’ve fried your brain.