Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.

Telling the right thing is not enough

Library is direction where wisdom start and ignorance end.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.

I got a granite chin.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.

Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.