Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Happiness is not in the absence of challenges but the choice to dwell on infinite hope.

If it was my lot that I should have him for only a little while, then have him I would.

I am a great mother.

I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be.

I die for speaking the language of the angels.

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.