Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts.

I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties to 9/11 and the fallout from it.

Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.

The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.

I began to explore America in more general terms. I really started this work in 2009. I got the bulk of it done as I was easing out of Disco Night.

It was sometimes provoked by assignments, then I'd go back on my own dime if I really clicked with a place. And sometimes it was just hanging out with my family or friends.

Your greatest disappointment will often lead you to your greatest appointment.

We only get what we can deal with."The real voyage of discovery consists...in seeing with new eyes

I grew out my armpit hair for the summer. It turns out my natural hair colour isn't blonde.

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

The key to successfully working with each other is that they respect each other and their abilities.