We all marveled that we'd gotten to take part in so perfect and courageous and amazing a life.

I don't know about the first steps in a geography of loss, and I know that it's unmapped. I know that we all have to go by ourselves.

All you need is one thought and one word. When you learn how to connect them, you can do anything you like.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.

When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people.

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.