When it becomes acceptable to kill another man or woman, childhood dies.” whispered Laurence. “When it becomes acceptable to kill a child…humanity dies.

There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?"

An intelligent person is someone who listens with understanding.

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.