I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.

There is grace for survival

In foster care it’s easier to measure what you’ve lost over what you have gained, because it there aren’t many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else’s plans for your life.

Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children.

I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming.

I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.