We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

I work only with lost and founds.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

I'm a beast when it comes to anything. I believe in givin' one-hundred-ten percent, anything I do.