Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.