Most people weren't wired to see miracles, even when one was staring them in the face.

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

Does he know I can never feel anything for anyone ever again?

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

My gym has two-pound weights. If you're using two-pound weights, how did you even open the door to the gym? What's your dream? To pump up and open your mail?

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.