There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Well my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience heightened creativity or exceptional performance by athletes and artists we harbor a greater life than we know.

Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large except they be bounded in by experience.

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

From the naturalistic point of view all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

I believe in equality for everyone except reporters and photographers.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories from education to infrastructure.