When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

The only real nation is humanity