I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

As believers, we should make the Kingdom of God visible to the people

When my children were little, always I had to explain things.Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?

My cousin Louie, we walk into a bar, and he says, Dom, I think that waitress knows me. What do you think she knows, Louie? The fact that your belly came in four steps ahead of you?

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.