His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer’s mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

We cry for the hand of God to bring us salvation, but then we seize the voice of God and use it to profess our destructive nature.

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.

I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

Iran said it will give up trying to make a nuclear weapon. But it got awkward when Iran said, 'But just for Lent. We'll start again on Monday.'

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.