Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

It is not how long the music last but how much we enjoy.

Through enjoyment we endure.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

America needs somebody to restore the strength of this great land of ours.

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.

He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

Monogamy is a huge time-saver.

PSG's project is to dream bigger, but if you buy Messi, you don't dream bigger - you are bigger!