I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

I know when a festival comes, I'm just searching for a beautiful birthday quote for her.

Success is possible, Failure is possible, But nothing is impossible.

Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.

I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.

It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.

Ive been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.

I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.