It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Insight involves trust - trusting that the information coming through is correct.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

What is life when living without the Lifemaker?

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.