"You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for."

“We have so many Christians who want to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.”

“An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.”

“I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.”

“Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.”

“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”

“I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff”

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

“Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They're everywhere and even if they don't get in your way, you can't help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them.”

“In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.”