I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.

Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

If only I had

It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died.Long time.

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.

To clarify, the issue isn’t that I’m too fat, it’s that I’m too phat. Can I get a WHAT-WHAT!

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Her head throbbed as though gremlins were ripping holes in her brain

There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!

God does not challenge weak people - he has laid this upon me and I'm not going to question it.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays.