Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.

I faced the "dead lion" courageously but will definitely run if I meet a roaring one...

Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future.

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.