That's all any of us have in the end, isn't it? there is death ahead of all of us. And so we live.

Just be the strong woman you are, like me. If the guys can't handle us, it's their problem.

The perfect killer has no identity.

Love finds beauty in the midst of ugliness and makes the journey of life worthwhile.

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, " he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence.

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.