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Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

Excuse me,” she said, her voice tight. “But if I’d known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it!

When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

When we need a policeman, God bless 'em, they're there. But, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, everything seems suspicious.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

When you have quick scenes, it becomes difficult to ascertain where your character fits and where they're going. I always enjoy scenes that have a movement to them.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still have cancer, but we'll detect it very, very early, so that it won't kill anybody. We'll zap it at the molecular level decades before it grows into a tumor.

We were right to say from the outset that E.U. citizens should not be treated as bargaining chips but should have their rights guaranteed immediately. We were right to call on the government to publish a plan for Brexit.

We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.

Knowledge is, of course, very important, because the things that we know become our tools, and without good tools at our disposal, it is quite difficult to remain alive in the world. But knowledge is also a kind of death. A question holds all the potential of the living universe within it. In the same way, a piece of knowledge is inert and infertile. Questions, Anna – questions are far more valuable than answers, and they do much less blowing up in your face as well. If you continue to seek questions, you cannot stray far off the proper road.

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.

Les femmes sont plus faibles, mais leur faiblesse est pleine de ruses et de certitudes morales tout aussi rigides. Comme leur arène est plus réduite, leur capacité destructrice réelle est moins inquiétante, mais comme elle sont plus intimes, elles sont plus fourbes.