The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

Nobody ever flunked a science museum

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.