Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well.

As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all

I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.