In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

'Tis the motive exalts the action 'Tis the doing and not the deed.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.