Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for.

I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

I had that Restylane stuff. It looked fake to me. I didn't like that. But it went away in, like, four months. My lips are back to what they were. Thank God!

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

I always believe in facts.