I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

It doesn't really matter if you lead or follow; everybody's laughing like there's no tomorrow and even if there was, would you still go following your friends?

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

I see nothing to fear in inner space.