Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 14, 1933 Death: November 22, 2012
It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!.
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and ….
The imagination is always the best torturer..
If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. ….
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention..
. . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only ….
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was t….
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorit….
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot ….
You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural..
. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child..
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining ….
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The ….
In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery i….
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happe….
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that ….
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end..
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `T….
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency.
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do..
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents..