I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication.

For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards.

It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.

The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.

It was my first dead body and I waited for the appropriate feelings. I didn't know what feelings to expect, which was worse than realising that I had none.

What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.

When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

In the pursuit of your dreams, you are your greatest assetand doubt is your greatest liability.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

WE WENT OUT THERE ON A MISSION, CAME BACK CHAMPIONS. WE PROVED WE WERE THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

My fondest memories are of watching lambs being delivered.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.