My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school?

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.

...trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

He must be lightning slow.

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.