A book, a book fullof human touches, of shirts, a bookwithout loneliness, with menand tools, a bookis victory.

So the freshness lives onin a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."Computer: "I don't understand-"Issac: "Me neither. Pause

It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall them, the words could never be right.

Live whatever draws out the magic within.

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

[T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.

You learn from mistakes.

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.