I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

If you see something working for someone else, and you are in the same business, more than likely it will work for you.

May you find the grace and willpower to fulfil your dream.

Respond with love and kindness even to hurtful treatment.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.