Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere.

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud.

My priority, the most important thing in my life is my family, my wife and my son.

Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.