People think that I'm very serious.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."

Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different

I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself.