The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

Is this the baby?" I said.Ma turned on me again."What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk?

Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.

Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.

If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that...

When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.