I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Isabelle had always simply reacted in her life. Someone left her behind

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.

Behind every humorist who delights in knifing hypocrites is a major self-critic.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude toward it.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

I have to be careful when I'm around sweets.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.