...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows – every researcher, every writer, every spy.

I was about as political as a bath towel.

Intimacy isn’t something men talk about.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.

You don't have to yell at me Schiavone. I'm not blind!

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

Fall down again, Bella?' No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.