Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

You have no right to kill others. Then how can you have a right to kill yourself?

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Where dance is, there is the devil.

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.