Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Trust yourself, because society always corrupt our confidence.

Some women, ” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “getunder a man’s skin until digging them out makes you bleed.

The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.