I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.

Ask broad questions and you'll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you'll get no answer.

But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.

People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more.

If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes.

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

Before you open your mouth to say something, take a step back and imagine what you're going to say was said to you.It makes you think twice, doesn't it?

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

Freedom is always wise.

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

Let the worst come to the worst.

The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.