Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

If you are idle, ask “why?” If you feel like life is boring for you, ask “why?” When you get into a disappointment, ask “why?” Even if you come out of all torments and disturbances, ask “why?

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

I love people and want to be good to people. If I'm in restaurant and somebody doesn't treat a waitress right, I literally will leave. I will unfriend you. You are not my friend anymore.

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.