“The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.”
“In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.”
“We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.”
“I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.”
“Electricity is really just organized lightning.”
“Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
“The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.”
“I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.”
“What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.”
“Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.”
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
