In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel doe….

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them..

Because it is gone you cannot say it will not return; even though you may say it has never yet returned-you cannot say that it will not. It is blasph….

No one will ever touch Elvis.

Russia is not our friend..

Travel is not about money, it's about courage..

Having your health is having everything in life..

I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way..

I fear we may live to see another revolution..

It sounds very simple, but the truth is most people don't give themselves the opportunity to do what they really want to do, because they feel trappe….

Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with..

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's….

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to..

That's life again. We can't decide what we like..

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent..

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here..

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth..

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope..

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God..

Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education..

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..