It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

The cancer of time is eating us away

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.