Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.

Holding onto what was isn't healthy for what is.

Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.

They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.