I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin.

I am blessed. I can bless.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.