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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

I stopped telling you all of my secrets when you became my biggest one.

Financial assistance from Peripheral Development Fund has been provided by Nalco to many educational institutions, trusts, etc, over the years. Financial assistance has not been provided to any private university.

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.

At Tottenham Hotspur, we can share the pressure, but on the South Korea team, some of the players have more pressure than others.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Sustained research will lead you to discovery.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

My perfect beach town isn't a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It's a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants - where the island-wide dress code is 'no shoes, no shirt, no problem.'

I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.