We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.