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

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.

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.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

You can’t accept correction when you are not humble to listen.

What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name.

The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.