What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static.

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.