It was a terrible thing, to love and not know whether you were loved in return, it led to the worst sensations--jealousy, rage, self-loathing--to all these lesser states.

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

Kind of just existed from day to day, on weird plateau of feeling nothingness.

the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.

Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Step by step the ladder is ascended.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.

Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.