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"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table."

"I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all "impossible". You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows."

"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."

"There are readers—and I am one of them—whose reading is rather like a series of intoxications. We fall in love with a book; it is our book, we feel, for life; we shall not need another. We cram-throat…"

"...the most recent tracks I've written on were ... Frozen' and 'I Believe You."

"He" should be read as "he or she" throughout the book."

"Books were banned from my house, my mum thought they were ‘germ traps’, so I was always sneaking into the library, hiding under a big plant; reading. I was escaping into another world as well as findi…"

"Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen."

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."

"The meetings with Mexican officials were planned before the election, but they took on even greater significance after Trump's win. But even before the election, it was obvious that my party had taken…"

"Researchers of the peninsula will get nowhere unless they take a break from their quantifying now and then, and enter into an imaginative sympathy with Korean nationalism, the way any sensible literar…"

"But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would ta…"

"Technocracy," in The Meaning of Technology. Selected Readings from American Sources ed. Montserrat Ginés Gibert"

"Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything."

"Those who have read this book will remember how the great heart of the author sought, even in the past of his people, the eternal secret of love. In Anna Karenina we find, already distinctly set forth…"

"I am not prepared to serve a sectarian regime. If we can achieve a broad, clear mandate for national unity, where it doesn’t matter if someone is Kurd or Arab, Sunni or Shiite, then I am ready to take…"

"Pity those—adventurers, adolescents, authors of young adult fiction—who make their way in the borderland between worlds. It is at worst an invisible and at best an inhospitable place. Build your liter…"

"National Review 100 Best Non Fiction Books 20th century"

"The striving early to earn one's bread."

"You may have noticed that I tend to quit things soon after doing them, like TV series, animated movies, book writing, broadway plays. I do feel very strongly in stopping the second I feel like I'm not…"