The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

People are trading distance for dollars.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

Culture does not make people. People make culture. if it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.