In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.