If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.

I will write myself into well-being.

God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.

The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

Everything- even me, and one day even Charlotte- must come to end.

The Gospel of glad tidings is the power of God.

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.

Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.

Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, to us, are some of the greatest films ever made, and each is better than the one before it. But if you go to Toy Story 6, they all end up decomposing in a trash heap somewhere.

I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant.

A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life.

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.