I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

Honest work deserves honest pay.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

The best advice I've ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you'll go far in life.

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead