...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.