History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.

Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.

Preki quite literally only has the one foot

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

What gives me strength is thinking about my children.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.