And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Gabe?"The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

Honor, ' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Why do you and I have to hold these memories?''It gives us wisdom.

It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.

Notice how extraordinary your life truly is. It’s filled with love. Open your heart to it.

Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

Anybody who gets into bed and turns out the lights the first night in the White House probably feels a little bit of a start, where you say, "Goodness ... "

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

Where one door shuts another opens.

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.