One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.