It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

The Democratic Party structure is keenly aware of who makes our party strong.

I know from personal conversation and from personal interaction, that Hillary Clinton cares deeply about issues of inclusion.

When I saw Fannie Lou Hamer speech I said, "Well, how did this Democratic Party that Miss Hamer is talking about, become the Democratic Party that now is the party of the African-American community?"

Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.

We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.

Sometimes just breathing is enough.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?