I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

To create is, first and foremost, to create time.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers!

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on.

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

I find the business world hard.

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.