Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it?

Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong.

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

We can only avoid the traps we can see.

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home