Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.

You should watch what you say to people.

Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart.

At one point in my life you'll have my best but not my whole.

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.

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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.

Keep on being yourself.

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.