"Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly."

"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."

"It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land."

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

"The canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"It is a steadfast truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear — an essential principle for the reflective life."