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The love of form is a love of endings.
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Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.
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A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?
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He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.
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Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between ***** and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
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Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her,
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.