Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Each person has a literature inside them.

When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.