My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.