This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

The ideas choose me, not the other way around.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.