I believe we should be championing the work of women. I believe we should be championing the work of people who have been marginalized. That's who I am. How can I not believe in that?

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics.

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

The things we should focus on in any life shouldn't be what we've lost, but what we've gained

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.