All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.
As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth. . . At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
The reluctant hero is always fun to play.
The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.