Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends.

Hope is the denial of reality.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.

I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.