Is there anyone nearby you can speak to without words?”“I don’t know. I only know that there are those whose minds I can speak with that, when I show them how, speak back to my mind as well.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

If anything I urge you to live bravely and beyond your own comfort zone.

In the face of a disaster, do you believe strongly enough in humanity to expend your life to save the lives of others you do not even know?

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretationand they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.

Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.