The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.