Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.

And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

The brace works like a bumper on your car. It absorbs the load. So a lot of the load isn't distributed through the body, it's actually distributed through the brace.

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

As the flow of subliterary "news items" and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only character.

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.