In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.

Everyone dies, but does everyone really live?

I've had plentiful opportunities for great things. Just didn't open my eyes.

The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.

Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.

It was a mating dance only slightly more dignified than presenting like a mandrill, but endearing in its own fashion.

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

I think if I had been a man, I would be richer. That hurts. But at the same time, I have to keep fighting and not think too much about "what if," because that doesn't lead you anywhere.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

It seems like a cultural shift - you see less and less bands coming up and more people leaving.