"The most subversive people are those who ask questions."

-- Jostein Gaarder

“Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.”
“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.”
“[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.”
“As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.”
“As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.”
“I plot my ascent daily.”
“A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.”
“My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.”

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