I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

Run while you have the light of life!

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

The only way I'm going to be able to really, truly live a moment is if it actually means something to me.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.