This war on terror is bogus.

Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

If your head is made of wax, don't walk in the sun

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.