I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'