Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.

Morning always comes.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.