The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page, like a contagion, which the reader then catches.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

The word of God renews my mind.

What are you planting today to harvest tomorrow?

Dragos, I'm beginning to feel like we're travel cursed. Something always happens when we go away.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.

The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy basically.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.