Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

It's not only the politician that can govern and lead a nation

I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go...

When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything.

What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you... creates such a crescendo of anger.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

If you believe it's life or death for the kids, it changes everything you do.

Love the fun of clothes, not the status of fashion.