Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

I am a stranger to half measures.

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

As a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and What you allow.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

That happens in life sometimes, doesn't it? Something terrible happens and you think it's the worst thing ever and then it turns out to be the best.

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.