I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings….

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

The American people are frustrated.

The promises of God become the power of God when they are believed and acted upon.

A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth