"Time is old. Life is short. Only this moment is guaranteed to you. Fight hard to do the things you dream of. You may not have another chance."

“Women tend to collaborate, in my experience, more easily than gentlemen do.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.”

“What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.”

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

“The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.”

Source : "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

“An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology”

“You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.”

“If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved”