The best style is the least noticeable.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

You learned this, ” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“Er…yes?”He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life.

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.