Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

Life is too short to bullshit.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.