Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

Nothing in life is fair except a witnessed duel.

Listen, whatever you see and love—that’s where you are.

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.