I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

We're not going to end the Medicaid. We're going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to make Medicaid work.

The best way to get something good out of what you're doing is to put something good into it.

Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.

Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

A lot of people say I can't do it because I'm blind, or I have red hair, or my feet are too big. Get the right team around you, don't set boundaries and go for it.