Can a country's people be better than its planes?

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

And everything would be different, different.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.""Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.""The storyteller should tell it.

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Some things are worth the splurge.

The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Making money isn't a bad thing at all - it allows for a lot more freedom.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."