The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition

I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.

Part those sheetslike holy watersand I will worship you skinlike a born-againbeliever.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.