Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul?

You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or burn and crash. But sometimes, something new is made, and then the world is changed. Together, in that first exaltation, that first roaring sense of uplift, they are greater than their two separate selves. Together, they see further, and they see more clearly.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.