I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.

As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.

I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.

We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

Music with all its subtlety has immense power to unite people, spread love and bring peace in the world!

Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

When something resonates with you, working for it seems more like play.