He didn't want just one morning with her, just one dawn breaking across the horizon. He wanted every dawn forever, every night, and the hours in between.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

He wanted to tell her she'd have more room if she'd just get rid of her books, but he supposed that in her case, it would be like telling a mother she'd have more room if she threw out her children.

You are the daughter of your Father, inheritor of the Earth, beautiful and blameless, chosen.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

I want to democratize business news.

I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.