Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up... →
Lawrence M. Krauss
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
Nicole Krauss
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most... →
For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked why, and the metaphor I came up... →
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's... →
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy... →
Charles Krauthammer
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our... →
The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.
If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to... →
You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.
Henry Kravis