That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Planning eliminates urgency by allowing you to bring your future into the present.

Surround yourself with 'yay-sayers' not naysayers.

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against?

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.