I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)