American diversity rarely applies to money and success.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

Everyone has their own way of learning.

I'm a big believer in going on offense, and I think Hillary Clinton is the ideal target on whom to go on offense.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.