I'm a total ignoramus about the technical aspects but I have to say that it's awfully purty now.

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.

I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farmer, the searing pain in my right temple.

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?

Love gives a sense of rest.

That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

I like my hair long because I have really big ears.

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.