People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn’t.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.