Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it
My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.
The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.
I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.
Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.
I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances of the characters as individual psychological plights. That's my preference; still, a lot of people do read my novels as psychological studies, and they're right to read them that way too, if that's what they mean to them.
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.
There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.