Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly--and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest it fall apart.

Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

You can’t just run away from uncomfortable situation. You have to develop new strategy to graciously handle the situation.

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.