Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

I know who I am, and I'm being true to myself.

Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality.

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

Well, I'm sold. I'll take one America.

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.