A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

In America the biggest is the best.

The details of what [Barack] Obama was going to do to the American health care system didn't matter. All that mattered was whether or not Obama was going to get it.

I find a lot of joy just going out and playing for people.