I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

Why is my perception right? If it is wrong, then what is right?

Even though I approached girls relentlessly, I wasn't really approachable myself.

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.

While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.