We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.

Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.