"I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better."

"Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror."

"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."

"It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise."

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."

"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."

"Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth."

"I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare."

"O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts."

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring."

"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."