The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

You just can't go back and expect your mind to be blown by the same thing every time. Life doesn't work that way.

Technology innovation for the sake of innovation is an empty shell if we focus on what people don't need but would buy anyways.

Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.