I prefer to be left alone with my books.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.

The stillness of the waters is only drowned out by the sound of your heartbeat.

Why, when two people start living together, do they end up hurting each other so much? Maybe that’s an indication that too much of anything isn’t good.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.