The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.
But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it --nor can they.
