The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

We are trained to ask "What's wrong and how we fix it?" Instead, start by asking - "What works, what have we got, what's possible and who cares?"

I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer.

When everyone does what is right in his own eyes, there is no possibility of order and peace.

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

Children aren't fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.