Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.

Ask yourself every day: Is my love alive, true, generous, and open? How can I bring love into action?

The maximalist demand of a complete ban on weapons, and the 'incremental steps' towards disarmament are both jammed. Will advancing IHL help both of these processes?

Your beauty isn't in your laughter. It's in your soul.

The first kiss is never just a kiss but a beautiful place you get to go only once.

It could be kindness. Faith felt hollow at the thought. She had needed kindness before, and has received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist - who travels with a Birkin bag and minimal accoutrement and somehow looks cool.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.