"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

"I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there."

"I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper."

"McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object."

"The true measure of a man is the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"It is a profound truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."