It's never just a game when you're winning.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.