It almost contradicts itself, " she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.

I extol life so much that I cannot make art.

All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

Just keep your head down and do your best.

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.