Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.