Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
Please believe in THE POWER OF ONE. One person can make an enormous difference in the world. One person - actually, one idea - can start a war, or end one, or subvert an entire power structure. One discovery can cure a disease or spawn new technology to benefit or annihilate the human race. You as ONE individual can change millions of lives. Think big. Do not limit your vision and do not ever compromise your dreams or ideals.
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.