A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
The key to lying skillfully is never lie to yourself.
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.
What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?
It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.
He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.
We, the Greens, should thank our former foreign minister Joschka Fischer for bringing something hideous and shameful to light - that Nazi ideas were fully adopted by white-collar workers in the Foreign Ministry. Joschka Fischer stood up to criticism that he would foul his own nest, and with his order to start the historical commission he made it clear that the ministry's pride in itself, as a haven of resistance to Hitler, was no longer acceptable.
I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much of Fernando Pessoa's work. I get restless for a new kind of influence. The books I've translated are books I want to learn from as a writer, to be intoxicated by. And translation is an act of writing in itself. It's an act of recreation - of a writer's cadence and tone and everything that distinguishes the voice in the book.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.