Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Stories are a different kind of true.

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice!