My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

The reason they were designated as targets was to keep them from the witness stand and us. Is it just a coincidence that four years later they haven't been indicted

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

Life is loves shrine.

The first thing I understand is pain.

A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.

Love is all about guts. If you have it, you fight with the world. If you don’t, you fight with yourself.

I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

I agree that special interest sections between Portugal and Indonesia can proceed without me being released.