I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

My brother spent a large portion of the agonizingly slow drive to school banging his forehead on the stearing wheel.

How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?

People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions