Mao Zedong

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

To read too many books is harmful.

I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.

The '60s had edge; the '70s had embroidery.

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.