Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.

Why do bad things happen to good people?''Because it makes a good story.

the code of a world he'd never been invited to join.

There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed.Expect everything - or expect nothing.

Life is a journey from God to God.

Most injuries heal in time, but guilt is a cancer that knows where to hide.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.