I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.

There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

What must not be read must not be written

Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others.

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

Bull markets go to people's heads. If you're a duck on a pond, and it's rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it's you, not the pond.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

The God we worship writes his name upon our faces.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.