The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.

I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.

I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately.

Im gonna be something one of these days.

It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.

I even watched Mulholland Drive in French... it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either.