Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.