Listen into the silences where the best words begin.

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.

Never put off until tomorrow that which may be avoided entirely.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

You've got to audition! It's tough out there, no matter how well-known you are.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.

Even if you're fat, one thing always fits: shoes.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.