Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

The view of Earth is spectacular.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.