If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we have been able to do in this constitutional age.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

Best advice is this: Work hard. Nothing is given to you.

Grieving is a matter of relearning how to be in the world.