Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to love far exceeds their capacity to hate.

The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written.

Be nice to people on the way up. Not because you might meet them on the way back down, but.. because what's the point in going through life being a c**t to everyone

At 23 I thought I knew everything, by 33 I realised I knew nothing.

In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people.

Once you sell people fear, they'll buy just about anything.

Wine is not a magic serum of truth. It just silences that smart little voice in your head which advises against saying some dumb shit.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

I know you don’t understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward, ” he says.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.

If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.