When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

Step aboard and we will fly through the window, through the sky

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. ... I couldn't control my tears of joy.