It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

When people give one star ratings, they seem to be trying to make a point. In my opinion, one star ratings don't make a constructive point. They are just unfair put downs to creativity.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

The art is long, life is short

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.