As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.

We are on the verge of listening

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain

I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.

Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

Every game, you will have a decided schematic advantage.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.