I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.

She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to shame his hearth with another man's memory of her shamelessness.

I could run farther than a hare! I could fight the fiercest fox that ever lived...I could climb the highest mountain faster than an eagle could fly.

...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.