Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

After the death of a parent, children will typically start to worry about your safety as their mother, so they will need extra reassurance from you.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready to move in the direction of that expansion.

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.