To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.
I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.