What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.