The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

I don't follow precedent I establish it.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement.

I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.

If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.