The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Wealth without real worthinessIs no good for the neighbourhood

The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.

Sakaki: "...Why can't we just talk it over...?"Tomo: "You can't talk to cats.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.