If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

Do I think that American democracy ends if Trump is president? No! I think, there are plenty of checks and balances in place. I think he would do some damage to the country but we would recover. The office of the presidency and American democratic institutions are a lot stronger than one person. So if he wins, our job is just to keep the office strong, right? And hope he'll be replaced by something better!

My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation and then the consideration of what has been created.