How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Personal writing takes up where public education leaves off – with intent to know what is important about life.

It is difficult to make the right choices in life, so it’s better to take it one step at a time”.

Everyone hates their picture being taken and they're nervous and they're bringing all of that. When I meet with them they realize it is a collaboration and they look forward to coming back.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

Then let's print up some flyers!

I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.

I've obviously been born fortunate. I love people. I enjoy every single minute of my life.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.