"I look into your eyes and see my own soul."

“In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing so it doesn't just look like crazy output. In other words, if it turns out that you can do a given voice, that's just kind of inclination. But then if you can find a way to put that voice in a story so that the voice serves a purpose, then I would say that's being a writer.”

“We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.”

“The only menace is inertia.”

“You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.”

Source : "How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

“I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.”

“This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.”

“It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'”

“I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.”