I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

Never be afraid of the dark side of Vegas, the side the neon and glitter never seem to touch..

Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence.

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

Blaire, tell me what you want me to do. I’ll do whatever it is you need.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.

The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.

I may command where I adore.