we may say that History develops, Art stands still

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

We move between two darknesses.

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

The best to know is to face it, take a next step toward it.

They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.

I happen to respect people who are willing to come under public scrutiny and serve their country.

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.