"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"The canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

"I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture."

"I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible."

"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"

"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."