Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.

You should not have assault rifles in your home.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.