The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers all alone in their studios with no one watching.

When we dream alone it is only a dream but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

At the beginning and at the end of love the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

India saw from the beginning and even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance she never lost hold of the insight that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Everyone talks about age but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.