I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

To conform is to lose your soul

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

Dreams are like puzzles. When all the pieces are missing, it is up to us to find them and decide where and how they fit in.

Action is the mother of creation.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

Today Russia announced that it will join America's fight with the terror group ISIS. Then Putin said, "But I did not say which side.

The fact that you fell out of bed makes some people think you had more than one drink before you called for help.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

You can't say that people don't love music anymore because they do. If we say that all the music stopped, if music stops now, the world can't handle that. We need our music.