Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

It's laughter that lubricates our irritations, that releases our tensions, that feeds our joy… it’s the laughter that helps keep things warm and joyful even in the midst of pain.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

People are machines of forgetfulness

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

Thought is your only currency!

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous.

He's one of those guys whose English gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right.