Still, there remains so much to relish and remember.

No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process...

We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.

Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.

[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

Truth is relative!

It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.

There is something very powerful about German music. That's why I chose German music with a European meaning for the day of my election.

Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe.

You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.