What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

I've always been in a rebel.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

She's my wife, not my girlfriend. Maybe for her it is better. For me, she's still the same girl, just my wife

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.

The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.