Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.

In the game of life, gratitude triumphs over fear anyway. Your move...

YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! YOU got to know YOU! Guess who you are? YOU are a blessing to all others especially me!

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

I became a villain for doing the right thing.

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.