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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

To us, mastering the atomic fuel cycle and generating nuclear power is as much about diversifying our energy resources as it is about who Iranians are as a nation, our demand for dignity and respect, and our consequent place in the world.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.

As a member of the Senate Aging Committee, I've gone to bat for seniors by cracking down on senior fraud, combating price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, and pushing for wealthy individuals to contribute their fair share to Social Security.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them.

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

I want to play Keith Richards.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Imagine if we can get information from sensors, compute it in the cloud, and find and plug water leakages - leakage wastes 20 per cent water in the world.