It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

He who moves not forward goes backward.

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

When you go to the park there is no horizon just Disneyland.

To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him.

When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests, or soil.

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Since I was 9 years old, I have been working, hustling to find my own projects - from telenovelas to record deals, etc. etc. Way before I met my husband.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.