The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.

Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

Geckos could caught by hand, but they could be found in the men's room.

Live in peace.

The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

I have gained self-confidence, courage and the support of my people.