Health care for everybody, by making it illegal not to have health care. It's so simple, why didn't we think of this before?
Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.
It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
What do we want from each other after we have told our stories
I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.