The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.

Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice.

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.