I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.