True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

I know that self-promotion happens a lot and it is not a bad thing. But I do not regard it as something positive.

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

Progress requires both courage and humility.