I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time.

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.