I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

A plan that is not written is just an idea.

I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that's one heckuva full day.

Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.