This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.
I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.
I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for.
On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.
megan once told me that happiness is getting exactly what you want, but she thinks it's only what she wants that counts.
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.
Science is not about what’s true. It’s about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by way of public evidence.
If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.
The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
It is by observation that in the future they will not remember what you said, they will not remember what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel.
I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.
Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.
It is not always about what you eat and drink. Rather it can be about what you are not eating and drinking, for which the body is desperately craving!
What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
What other men fear should make you bold; what makes other men fools should make you wise.
