A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Smile with joy.

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

I love, love, love to rehearse, but when you're rehearsing and then you go do it at night, it's a very weird thing.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

Don't think of cost. Think of value.

All writing is dreaming

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.