I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

A real diamond is never perfect.

Nobody knows exactly what he's capable of until he tries.

I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of the country.

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.

The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

How deeply one felt when alone.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?