Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

Affinity of a marriage is not a destination, but a journey of two hearts breezing into an yearning eternity

There are no words precise enough to describe how wide and empty the world is when you lose someone that matters to you as much as Penny did to me.

Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing she is just so beautiful.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.

It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.

No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.