your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

When in doubt, risk it

We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!