Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and yet we still find war. Must it always be so?

He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.

The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!