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“Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.”
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“Men should have more time with their newborn babies.”
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“A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.”
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“This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.”
Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (1991). “A Writer's Reality”, Mariner Books
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“Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.”
Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.51, A&C Black
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“If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.”
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“A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.”
Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.173, Penguin
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“However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that...”
Source : "Deal or dud: How will history judge Iran agreement?" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. November 25, 2013.
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“If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.”
