Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.