Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.