Your natural decisions are the decisions that are going to be good.

You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.

I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

We can't dispose of the everydayness of people's struggles. We have to build a world that is ultimately supposed to be, very simply, everybody doing what they are happiest doing.

At the end of the day, the internet is a fair space. A medium of infinite resource. And something we've never had before, ever. But people aren't connecting the dots, and that's what scares me.

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.

The mechanics of Nature ensures that the shadow of yesterday doesn't eclipse the dawn of tomorrow.

Well, fathers and sons… one way or the other, they always disappoint each other.

The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.