Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, ” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

I realized that I read books not because of the words used but because of the familiar feelings these words help me express.

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.