You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

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.

This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything

Childhood is a slum and they love it.

Nothing Succeeds like excess!

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.

You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

When we open to love, we become love.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.