I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.

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?

I can’t help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.

The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.

Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence?

[Hillary] Clinton's plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

I feel God when I find myself in a situation which spontaneously opens me to the larger reality that exists all around.