The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Convictions are prisons.

[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research.

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

If you know the wavefunction of the universe, why aren't you rich?

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.