Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.