If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.