When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.

If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.

The "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought.

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

I live at Gap Kids; I think they have the cutest stuff. I barely buy anything for myself, but my daughter has quite the collection.

Come what may and love it.

In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.