All art consists in bringing something into existence.
There's nothing like getting caught flat-footed in an emergency to convince us to better prepare for the next one.
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
Being dead is being weak and walled off.
Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
Sometimes we look at patterns, and we look at things that are happening, and sometimes you can't dismiss everything as a conspiracy.
Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
Silence was never written down.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
