Life is a death-defying experience.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are family you choose.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

Every interaction is an opportunity to learn, Only if we are interested in improving rather than proving.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

There is a place of imagination, and it is entirely real.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.