Do you think there could be a universe next door?

The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.

How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be.

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.

Wind is renewable. Turbines are not.

When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

I just write what I want to write.