Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

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.

The more you smile, the more reasons you will find to smile.

Work Hard Until You No Longer Have To Introduce Yourself.

He couldn't stop staring at her cleavage...The vee in between beckoned him like a bee to nectar.

Every day is a challenge, a challenge of happinesswhether you can still wear a smile at the end of a depressing day or you will totally miss it.

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

God is not a diversion.

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.