Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.