Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly.

Of course I began to see Nikki, which was strange because I was staring into Danny's eyes, and Danny is a six-foot-three black man who looks nothing like my ex-wife.

... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.

I am not weak and can control my mind really well".

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.