An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

I'm an explorer by nature, and being an entrepreneur allows me to explore new opportunities and technologies. And that's the best part of it.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework.

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.

I think laughter is a sacred act.

My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?