Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says—we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem.

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.