I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

For their holidays: the rich go see the world

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

We are on the verge of listening

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.