To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.

The science world has no such coherence, cohesion or cooperation. It's a bunch of academics who were raised on the idea of communication being a frivolous add-on.

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything

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