There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Boards don't hit back.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.