The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.

Streamlined time details are especially important, because by having to take a close look, we discover new things. Because of this, details will remain part of the building in the mind's eye

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

I am going to die someday and I know where I am going.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.