I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Life is biting into a cupcake and finding an eyeball at its center.

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she has.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

I’ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.