Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

The voids in her soul turned every touch of someone else into the reminiscent of his love inside her.

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

I don't I have everything I want; however, I have a lot and for that I am very grateful.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism