I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

Sometimes at night in my bed I solve the worlds greatest problems all in my mind... By morning my memory has faded and every great idea has vanished!