Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

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

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

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

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.