It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your "reporting" that you do.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

People only respond to fear.

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.