I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.