It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing. - Salman Rushdie

...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe

I'm going to tell you really truthfully, I'm not thinking about the long term [...] I'm thinking about little step by little step. I just think, Bop till you drop.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.