To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream
I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.
If you're willing to change the world let love be your energy
I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.
I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.
It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.
Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.