I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

Sometimes imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

Ignore negative criticisms, focus on positive thoughts.

Stop assuming I don't have any emotions. My inner thoughts might not be easily seen on my face. I do think and feel.

For I am bound with fleshly bands, Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope; I strain my heart, I stretch my hands, And catch at hope.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.

For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!