We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The heart is a place of secrets.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.