How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy-I want to talk about the movie in a second-but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a...

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It’s not as if people don’t know what is going on.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

You know, I had spoke to Pugh earlier about joining the organization. Pugh told me he wasn’t going to have anything to do with that mess.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists… to understand how those evil things came...

Actually ideas are everywhere. It’s the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one...

There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don’t think that we can afford to wait.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren’t even people I would date.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever...

Play fair. Don’t hit people. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.