Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks.

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

Some general advice about writing:WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.

I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

It was a very different Republican Party in 2013. And so I think particularly the House Republicans are more confrontational, less willing to compromise even than the Republican class of '94.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.