America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.