The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

Share yourself with me. I will never judge you. I am here and I will stay here only to love you.

Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.

Gray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

Dirty politicians, corrupt leaders and thieves are sent to the Ugandan parliament and state house by lazy Ugandans who don’t go to vote.

I don't have a strict diet where I have to eat 100g of this, 200g of that, but before, I had a problem with sweet things, so I cut them out completely.

Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the Kalashnikov was the predominant arm.

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.