I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

We are all worthy of one another.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.

I want to kiss you so thoroughly that you lose your ability to stand.

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.

I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.