Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

When you're shopping you forget about eating!

The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.

You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick.

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S.