There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Give chance to your wheels to turn with their maximum potentials as long as your passion fuels your life. Don’t give up

Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.

He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.

Trump's election has opened many people's eyes in Europe to how valuable the European Union and international cooperation are.

Another wing of the party seems to be putting its hands up. They're not all resisting and accepting the [Donald] Trump - the fact that he could very well win the nomination.

I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.

I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.

O what a disgrace if such a despised and base race, which worships demons, should conquer a people which has the faith of omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ!

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do