I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.

I'm proposing a plan to provide school choice to every disadvantaged student in America.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

All things are plotting to make us whole / All things conspire to make us one.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

People say you're flirting with death but really you're flirting with life.

[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.