Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all other ... a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body of water that would later be described as Pacific.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.