Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard

Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

Sometimes the heart demands.

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

Control is an advertising concept.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

When I found you, I found my world where I can get lost without any reason.

Be weary of the unknown inside of every human being, but do not fear it, embrace it.

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.