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.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

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?

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

If someone asks me a question it is very difficult not to answer honestly.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

Losing elections all across America, and the American people clearly saying the Democratic Party is no longer the party of the people, I don't know how much more objective you can get than that.

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.