I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this. This is a little outlandish".

Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.

I've never been lonely because I enjoy my own company.

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

Life is beautiful, enjoy every moment of it.

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?