The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

We are all naturally xenophobic.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.