It's never too late to come home, " he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.

‎What's the weather like? ... It's fierce mild!

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.