Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.

I think the wave of social media rejection is coming. I think there will be a big reaction against it. It's just like sugar- - mean, I loved it as a kid.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it does good for me.

My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.

If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.