Even the good guys, ' she said, 'can't win all the time.

Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.

... sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

... the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.

Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

If you want to attain some heights in your life, you have to walk every minute.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.

I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.