You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.