It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I do, Augustus. I do.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

There is no truth in him.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

What's up with chicks and science?

You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.

I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.

Young people voted [on Brexit] to remain by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them.