The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

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.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.