I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

You are a VIP, a very important person so take care with self care. If not you, who? If not now, when?

Those who have suffered in the hands of others, know what it is to be free.

Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.

When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

Faith is knowing who God is and acting accordingly... God fights when we move.