Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

When troubles come may prayer be your automatic response.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.