What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

I was very precocious. I was pleased with myself. I thought I was very good-looking and I thought I was very clever - and I was.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.