“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.”
“I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency...”
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.”
“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”