The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .