I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

Divine direction begins with unconditional submission.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.