We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.