Keep the faith. Whatever that may be. Don't get too depressed yet, because I have a belief in America being very diverse and ornery, and containing a lot of people who are not going to roll over very easily for a totalitarian dictatorship. That is what I think.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.