You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.