[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?

Every living creature breathes.

A world of Peace and liberty is my dream

Get it Right today, for today wil never come again

Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more gloriousthan this one.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.