I have this strength that comes from knowledge..

Fear is the beginning of wisdom..

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased..

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be jus….

I rather like the idea of defying death..

Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices..

God allows in His wisdom what He could easily prevent by His power..

I begin by not photographing..

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?.

To create is to resist, to resist is to create..

The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you..

I couldn't kill a fly..

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are ….

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody..

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a ….

Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing seg….

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much..

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted..

You have to be willing to recognize failure..

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.