‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

With death comes honesty.

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.