The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.

Home is really where education does begin.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.