Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.

I had a dream about you last night. You were at my door. We had forgotten what we used to fight about. So, I let you in and we made coconut pancakes like it was the very first time.

Just past hell lies paradise.Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of that.Serina Hartwell Author of The Hidden Saga

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.