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

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.

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 grabbed my hand and that’s when I felt my heart beat for the very first time.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of the complex, changing nature of the world.

Ive worked with some of the most inspiring and genuinely nice people.

I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

You're just looking for the thing that makes this scene sort of imperative, why you have to know what changes by the end of the scene so you're really looking to find the essence of it.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.