You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

The absence of fear is love.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.

So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

Any good is good enough.

Stories choose us, not the other way around.

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.