“Don't succumb to the fear; don't mistake the absolutism of Khan's opposition for morality”

“don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!”

“Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.”

“I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.”

“K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.”

“Steven wrote to me today, saying, 'Don't you feel like sticking your head out of the window and yelling, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!!!"' Yes, absolutely. Solidarity. Fear is always the same. Different worries with different scripts, but the same baseline fear.”