Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.