I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily. "Hey, you stole my line," Dan said.

I think where you play is important.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.