Resentment generates hate

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

If you don't understand my silence, then you won't understand my words.

Withdrawing back is like ending school withouth examination which means your not tested to face the professional aimed at. Never get back on the aimed forward processes.

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.