1. “You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”
2. “The book really comes to life in the rewriting.”
3. “Literature got me into his mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.”
4. “He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach – that it makes no sense.”
5. “It’s human to have a secret, but it’s just as human to reveal it sooner or later.”
6. “Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.”
7. “You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”
8. “When he is sick, every man wants his mother.”
9. “Stop worrying about growing old And think about growing up.”
10. “Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.”
11. “There’s something every woman wants, and that’s a man to blame.”
12. “The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
13. “The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.”
14. “Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.”
15. “Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.”
16. “One either imposes one’s ideas or one is imposed on.”
17. “When you publish a book, it’s the world’ book. The world edits it.”
18. “Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.”
19. “It’s amazing how much punishment we can take.”
20. “Each book starts from ashes.”
21. “Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.”
22. “Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
23. “Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.”
24. “A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.”
25. “It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.”
26. “Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.”
27. “For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can’t beat the nasty side of existence.”
28. “Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”
29. “Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.”
30. “It’s best to give while your hand is still warm.”
