"This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable."

"Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like."

"The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence."

"Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race."

"I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s."

"Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space."

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.