Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said...

The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

You'll be just fine, " he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.

You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.

I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.

Be kind whenever, you can.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Keep your coins, I want change.

Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'