"Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet."

“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”

Source : John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

“Everything is possible for the writer. There isn't anything anyone can tell you that you can't do, and there is no such thing as "getting away with" anything. There's no one to tell you what you can or can't do. You're only limited by the fences you allow yourself to build around yourself, for whatever reason, including fidelity to some idea about literature someone else imposed upon you some time long ago or five minutes ago.”

“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”

“Im sick of making bloody history.”

“They are sharing a drink called loneliness.”

“I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.”

“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.”