The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers.

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

We're all here for a spell

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.