Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

People perish. Books are immortal.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.