Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

Science is magic that works.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.