You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

He is the light in my life and the rock beneath my feet. (Referring to the Lord Jesus)

Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to.

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

Be curious. Be daring. Be different. Be yourself. And, if that doesn't work, be moi!

Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.

It is about what you do when nobody is watching. Can you always stay on your grind, or are you only a star when the lights are on you and everybody is watching?

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

My father was very big on marriage.