Things work out better when you're straight up.

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.