I always try to travel light.

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform.

I'm excited to have the opportunity to lead one of the true e-commerce innovators.

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

I always put a little bit of restrictions on myself, and I only do it for my creativity.

As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.