Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

Transform the Material.(Chuang Tzu)

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

Incompetency fed on itself.

As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

Shut your role and know your mouth.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once