If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire

There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.

Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.