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.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

A married man is just a single man who couldn’t say no.

Worrying is like a man's beard, if you don't do something about it... it will keep growing.

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

When it looks like everyone is against you, look inside for the truth.

God’s Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.