I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

Gather up your fighting spirit or the disease will deafeat you!

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

Spend time doing things that matter.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Let the questions be the curriculum.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead.