With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but a creative artist. The greatest of all. And what characterises artists is that they want to redo their work. Maybe it didn't come off perfectly, so they want to see it done again, and improved. Reincarnation is a way for God to improve his earlier works.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.