In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.

The time is out of joint.

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.

The latest political rumor, North Korea ruler Kim Jong Il is close to naming his successor. Yeah, he said the only person with glasses big enough to replace me is Nicole Richie.

NO, I will not accept straight edge into my life!

Everything works out how it should.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.