Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

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.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Change isn’t closing the door on the old, it is opening the door on the new.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.

I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.