It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that refledts it.

The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.