Writing is a lonely business.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Common aim is stronger than blood.

Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.

Sometimes, when you win, you lose.

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

We have to transform our energy system.

Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.