For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

Listen, then make up your own mind.

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I will be fully awake in today.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God, then you may take the yogi medicine.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.