My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

You are the light in the midst of darkness.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger.

A Twinkle In The Eye, Is an Angels Reflective Smile

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

When you have a problem, the first thing to do in addressing it is to honestly identify it.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

I always liked to make something creative.