Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

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.

I respect myself and receive joy form all directions.

We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.

Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

It's a conflict of parallels.

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

I have two skateboards, but I don't get to use them much. I have a snowboard, which I've never used.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.