I always want to write something better than the last book.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.

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.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

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