Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

I'm the most famous person, problem is people don't know it yet…

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending.

I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.