The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

What is healing, but a shift in perspectives?

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.