But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.