Drifting away from one’s culture leaves one stranded in the middle of nowhere till the time his suffocation strangles him.

An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.