Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.