I can be around kids if I need to be.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Everyone starts to think they are ‘Superman’ from the moment they know their bad time has turned into the best.

Magical morning lights, dreamy sky, Smiling flowers letting us know summer is opening her eyes

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

New York, hands down. I don't want to be there in the winter, but even then it's an amazing place.

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin.