I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror.

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

The law is not designed to make us honorable, only bearable.

Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.

What we resist persists.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.