Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

There is no denial that all things are possible in life. But don't forget to take care of your health, because without it too many things would become impossible.

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women's issues, but now that she's here, I'm even more inspired to leave a better world for Evangeline.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.