When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

The mind is deeper than the horizon, bigger than the universe, and more mysterious than space.

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.

Form is the shape of content.

I guess the internet and the power of people finding things out for themselves is great.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

I do feel a certain love from the British public.