I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farmer, the searing pain in my right temple.

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.

I'm a total ignoramus about the technical aspects but I have to say that it's awfully purty now.

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.

All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to develop their gift

Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.- Camille Preaker

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

There's nothing - there's nothing - as action-packed as 'Hawaii Five-O.'

You're not listening with your eyes.

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.