The novel is a totalizing form; it tries to encompass all of human experience.

I'm a terrible liar, but a great actress.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.