"The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that."

“Alpinism places unique demands on its practitioners.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com

“The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.”

“When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is the dawning recognition of the fact that each one of us, at our highest level, is that Authentic Self, which is actually the same energy and intelligence that originally inspired the entire creative process. You begin to intuit and feel directly connected to the very impulse that initiated the whole event fourteen billion years ago and is driving it right now.”

“I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.”

Source : "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book". Interview with Molly Driscoll, www.csmonitor.com. Ocotber 3, 2012.

“In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?”

“White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.”

“It's getting the right person that's the challenge.”

“Jewish suffering is also a political factor, and whoever says that Hitler diminished our strength, is not telling the truth.”