I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on.

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.