It's painful to consider anything but writing.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

We shall prevail in any problem, if we pray

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

Friends with benefits are neither.

I want to go outside and play.

If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.