You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.

I play how I feel. I don't have a set way of playing. I get going, looking to create danger.

Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!

All great art is a form of complaint

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.