“It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.”

“But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...”

“A girl who travels will need someone that questions her, not too little, and not too much. Shell need someone to read her, but also really listen to her. Because shell want to do the same. Shell wa...”

“The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look.”

“To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.”

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”