Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.

I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

Christmas teaches us to be loving, kind, giving, forgiving, and appreciating.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness.

Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.