I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.

I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

I want Americans to know that Guantánamo​ happened not to monsters, but to men. Innocent men.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

I dreamt, I woke, I grafted, I failed, I persisted, I conquered.

Learn well and play well.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

You are blowing my mind.

These women [abused by Donald Trump] certainly do have seen the statute of limitations expire. But if he attacks these women, they can allege defamation of their own .

When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.