Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.

I'm a total ignoramus about the technical aspects but I have to say that it's awfully purty now.

I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farmer, the searing pain in my right temple.

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

Every day is spectacular sacred time.

The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.

We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.