Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

Now what I like about lit is that though you feel you know the characters involved, you don’t – you get all the benefits of having a relationship, with none of the mess.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

Politics is not about divide the nation in the name of religion/cast but to the defend the country & represent it in international forums.

No, no - I think about thinking

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.