It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

It is good to focus, but never forget to look around. If you focus on the wrong target, you may miss seeing all of the beauty around you.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

To make a perfect t-shirt is hard - all you have is white cotton and fit. that's where experience comes in.

Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do.