I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.