I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

When you dance, you don't sweat. You glow.

[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

I wouldn't believe there was something 'wrong' with my son.

I love working in the theater.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible.

Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Opportunities energize the faithful and paralyze the fearful.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.