"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."

"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom."

"Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death."

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."