Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.