Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

Lost. The therapist made it sound as if the person could be found. As if death wasn’t final and irrevocable.

He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he’ll write one someday.

May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

I do feel that houses have faces - and feelings too.

You see someone like maybe William Eggleston. William doesn't even really talk about what he does; he just wants to make these images. He kind of hovers around a location and extracts these images.

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn't lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

Entrepreneurship is the way we take control of our lives in a tough economy.

The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.

You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

Hope is the mother of faith.