If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think.

We don't need to pacify our issues, we need to crucify them.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.