Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.
If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.