Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

I'm very open-minded.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

I think that we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups. It's very scary when we're all - as wonderful as it is - connected.

I'm just someone who observes a lot.

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.