To show his nervousness was not shameful

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Never let me lose you, Ink. Never let me screw this up. And never think for one moment that I don't love you, need you or want you with me.

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

I'm really conscious of not doing something just for the sake of moving forward.

Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.

It's hard for me to climb things. That's why I always play Assassin's Creed because it gets me feeling like I can.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.