I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, 'You know that point they made... they were dead on.'
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
