Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Every decoding is another encoding.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.

Whatever success you have had, whatever victories you have experienced, whatever you have done so far in your life is only a fraction of the potential within you

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.