Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

You don't wait for your dreams to happen, you MAKE them happen.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

My daughter asked if the boogie man was scary. I said, "Not as scary as the boogie woman.

Raise your energy. You attract what you radiate.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .